Mike Edge

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to understand why Western infrastructure is falling apart while military budgets grow?

It is not mismanagement.

It is the correct functioning of the system.

Infrastructure, roads, bridges, water systems, public transit, hospitals, schools, serves populations.

Military spending serves contractors.

In a political system where contractors fund campaigns and populations mostly don't, and where the ideology of the past forty years has systematically delegitimized public investment while celebrating private profit, the outcome is not a mystery.

The bridge collapses.

The F-35 program receives another decade of cost overruns and continued funding.

The school crumbles.

The base in a country most Americans cannot locate on a map receives its budget.

This is not corruption in the sense of deviation from the norm.

This is the norm.

And the people who live near the collapsing bridge and send their children to the crumbling school will, in significant numbers, vote for the politicians who maintain this arrangement, because those politicians have successfully convinced them that the alternative is socialism, and socialism means Cuba, and Cuba has been the monstrous alternative for sixty years.

The same island. The same fear. Recycled through every election cycle since before those voters were born.

They have been voting against Cuba since 1962.

The bridge has been collapsing the entire time.

The genius of the rot is not that it deceives people once.

It is that it hands them the same deception across generations, and they receive it each time as if it were new.

As if this election, this candidate, this particular invocation of the island ninety miles from Florida is the one that finally justifies ignoring what is happening to the place where they actually live.

Cuba didn't collapse your bridge.

Cuba didn't close your hospital.

Cuba didn't move your factory to a country where labor has no rights and then call it "free trade."

Cuba has been under American embargo for six decades and has never once been the reason your water is undrinkable.

But it will be on the television again next election cycle.

And the bridge will still be there.

Collapsing on schedule.

While the contractor cashes the check.

[yerm @yyyerm]

They want to give these guys backdoor access to all of your messages btw

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

now you know why governments around the world are trying to bring in digital id and social media bans.

[Tommy Miles @tommymiles]

The amount of waist-deep involvement Western militaries have had in the actual perpetration of the gaza genocide will only be accepted decades from now in the West, but was clear from the first days for any honest observer.

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

Canada passed a law criminalizing the Hamas and Hezbollah flags, introduced mandatory ISP metadata retention, and tabled a Digital Safety Commission with authority to define "hatred" — all in the same parliamentary session.

Bill C-9 clears Parliament:

The Combatting Hate Act passed the House in March and the Senate in June, with Royal Assent imminent. It creates a new criminal offence for displaying symbols with intent to promote hatred, covering Nazi insignia and flags of designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah. The religious expression defence has been removed, opposed by the United Church, Anglican Church, National Council of Canadian Muslims, and Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.

Bill C-22 builds the retention infrastructure:

The bill requires providers to retain metadata — call logs, location data, digital traces — for up to one year and mandates adaptations for data transfer to police and CSIS under warrant. Google said the bill goes further than Canada's allies; Apple said there is no credible way to build access that excludes bad actors; Meta flagged it could require installing government interception software on their systems. Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne warned extended retention increases breach risk.

Bill C-34 creates the speech regulator:

Introduced Jun 10, the Safe Social Media Act establishes a Digital Safety Commission of three to five unelected commissioners empowered to require platforms to mitigate "harmful content," including content that "foments hatred." Civil liberties organizations note the definition is broader than the Supreme Court's requirement of extreme manifestations. Non-compliant platforms face fines up to $10 million or three percent of global revenue. The bill bans under-16s from social media, mandates age verification, and covers AI systems capable of simulating human-like relationships.

My take: Three bills in one session to make Canada fascist again.

The Carney government is constructing durable legal and technical capacity while governing through falling institutional trust and ongoing Indigenous land disputes. Palestinian solidarity organizers face immediate exposure: the Hamas flag ban is operational now, the metadata infrastructure follows, and the Digital Safety Commission will eventually decide what "detestation" means. Canada presents as the liberal alternative to the American surveillance state. This legislation closes the gap. If you needed any more proof on what you get when you scratch a liberal.

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

i watched every single major western news outlet deny the most obvious genocide in history

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

In many cases the children are unable to register what is happening to them from the shock, and end up dying from the shock and not the injuries themselves. As you file your taxes in the US/EU, remember where they are going.

[PotatoRustler @PotatoRustler]

🚨 For anyone tracking the under-16 social media bans in Canada and the UK, you might have noticed the government suddenly walking back some specific wording.

They backed off forcing you to upload credit cards or facial scans because of the public backlash, and now they’re pushing a "backend token system". It sounds less intrusive on the surface, but here is the truth about what that actually means, because most people are being completely misled by that marketing:

A cryptographic token isn't a magic, anonymous poker chip. To work, a token has to be anchored to something verified. That means your physical device, your phone carrier contract, or your real identity is permanently tethered to that token.
Every single time your phone throws that token to let you log into an app, it logs exactly who you are, where you are, and what you're doing.

It isn't a privacy shield to protect kids. It's a digital passport that tracks an adult's every move across the internet.

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

Mark Carney says slaughtering 3,400+ Iranians, including 168 school girls, was “worth it.”

We are governed by dead-eyed psychopaths.

[Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh]

People *need* to understand this: the under-16 bans hit adults too.

Whether you’re 15 or 55, your ability to speak freely and anonymously online is at risk.

This. Isn’t. Just. About. Teens.

[respawnedtargaryen @respawnedtarga1]

It went from “porn” to everything like we all predicted

[Corruptario @corruptario]

This is the point of "banning" kids under 16 from social media.

They don't give a fuck about protecting kids.

This to end anonymity on the internet. So that everything you say, do, share, like, buy, download, look at, or read can be tracked and tied back to you personally.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed.

This video shows three young men trying to help an injured person, but Israel bombs them with a missile, killing them all.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

One of the most painful images to come out of Gaza.

A child struggles to process the unimaginable after seeing his parents killed before his eyes in Gaza.

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

I just feel like the 40,000 people in Toronto who marched in defense of this should have to defend themselves.

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

They told the public these cameras were for serious crime.

Now we keep seeing cases where officers are accused of using access to stalk people.

That is the problem with mass surveillance: once the database exists, abuse becomes a feature, not a surprise.
https://t.co/vRR8sYoOIZ

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This is the massacre where Israelis stole the baby in oven story from. While holding villagers in a bakery hostage, Zionist soldiers ordered the owner to put his son into the burning oven. The father refused so the soldiers threw his son into the oven and made him watch.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

2.5 years of Israeli soldiers filming themselves wearing the undergarments and lingerie of Palestinian women and I don’t think a single mainstream media article has been written about this.

[Ahmed Ashour 𓂆🇵🇸 @AhmedAAshour8]

Today’s another part of baby Mohammed Al-Khatib’s foot was amputated. He is only 40 days old
This is what Israel is doing to Gaza’s children💔

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

“I fucked your sister. Nice pussy.” Wholesome family fun always at the annual @UJAFederation Walk With Israel in #Toronto. We are supposed to believe these people feel threatened, as they go around yelling such depravities in front of their own children.